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    Anyone with that 'Fable Book' from where comes the saying 'Bury the Hatchet'?

    Question #23001. Asked by Paul. (Oct 03 02 11:10 PM)


    Jack Flash

    		Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has the following entry:
    Bury the hatchet means let bygones be bygones. The Great Spirit commanded the North American Indians, when they smoked their calumet or pipe of peace, to bury their hatchets, scalping-knives, and war clubs, that all thought of hostility might be put out of sight.

    Oct 04 02, 7:11 AM
    Siskin

    		To continue from Jack Flash:
    'Buried was the bloody hatchet,
    Buried was the dreadful war {club;}
    Buried from all warlike weapons,
    And the war-cry was forgotten.
    There was peace among the nations'.

    From 'The Song of Hiawatha' - Longfellow.

    Oct 04 02, 10:54 AM

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